Three "legally compliant" or "not recommended" website pharmacies sent "Daxid®" tablets in place of Zoloft® tablets, which were not in testable form but passed spectrometry testing when tested against the Zoloft® reference standard.
Since the only drug samples (in testable form) to fail testing were fake copies of Viagra® containing zero active pharmaceutical ingredient (API), the prices of the drugs that failed and those that passed were analyzed, as well as the prices of those that were copies of Viagra®, which had active ingredient but would "fail" spectrometry testing.
Of the website pharmacies accredited by NABP, only one provided a drug which was not in testable form; in this case, the bottle was labeled "Sertraline HCl 100mg".
All of the drugs from this website passed spectrometry testing or were not in testable form (Neksium®). Website pharmacies can, in principle, shut down and simply re-open under a new name.
Four of the five drugs (with the exception of Neksium®, which was not in testable form) purchased from this website pharmacy passed spectrometry testing.
"We as a society," he says, "would be better off if participants in policy debates stated their beliefs in testable forms [and] monitored their forecasting performance, and honoured their reputational bets".
Tetlock also has an unscientific point to make, which is that "we as a society would be better off if participants in policy debates stated their beliefs in testable forms" — that is, as probabilities — "monitored their forecasting performance, and honored their reputational bets".
These variables were coded into a testable form for future analysis.
Population size could well play a role, and is in principle testable, but to my knowledge the only examples of massive expansion of selfish elements are in organisms with meiotic sex.
They highlight missing links in knowledge and form testable hypotheses that should be further investigated.
